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Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

For people with OCD, reassurance can be harmful. ChatGPT provides an infinite supply.

Republicans are proposing huge cuts to Medicaid. The impact on Americans’ health would be devastating.

American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?

Porn has long been the canary in the coal mine for other restrictions against free speech.

Americans awoke this morning to the news that the United States military had [DROPPED BOMBS AND / OR CARRIED OUT DRONE STRIKES] on [WHATEVER COUNTR...

Designers producing ethical products are criticised for their high prices, but little can be done about that without wider change, writes Smith Mordak.

Being an asshole is a choice.

WSP leverages cellphone data to predict and prevent speeding, enhancing safety on Washington's roadways.

Money's sole purpose should be to make you happy and align with your values.

Feminists, religious crusaders and “alpha male” influencers have turned the tide in the decades-old battle over adult content.

Compared to farmers, foragers were more egalitarian and had more communal property, food-sharing, and child-rearing.

A leading conservative thinker on populism’s rise on the right.

Donald Trump brings America into Israel’s war on Iran.

Why Avoiding Hard Choices Is Destroying What Makes Us Human

Police departments in Oregon created an "analyst group" where they casually offer each other assistance with surveillance tools.

Our Obligation Beyond Borders

How we might rebuild journalism from the ground up by rethinking what a newsroom is.

Tulsi Gabbard is a National Security Emergency

A man on Bluesky attempted to explain the AI policies of Signal to the company's president, a baffling instance of mansplaining.

On the ProjectVRM list, John Wunderlich shared a find that makes clear how advanced and widespread  AI-based shopping recommendation has gone so far (and not just with ChatGPT and Amazon). Here it is: Envisioning Recommendations on an LLM-Based Agent Platform: Can LLM-based agents take recommender systems to the next level? It's by Jizhi Zhang, Keqin Bao, Wenjie…

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire

Why is so much AI slop about Jesus and the Bible, and why do Christians appear to love it?

How Musk turned chaos, cults, and contradiction into the most Byzantine machine in capitalism

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state